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Why do you oppose allowing states to decide their own abortion laws?

If you want to live in a state that allows abortion, you are free to reside in that state. If a woman wants an abortion, they are free to travel to that state and get an abortion. The tenth amendment gives states some degree of sovereignty:

[b]The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. [/b]

If it's not in the constitution, which abortion isn't, it's left up to the state to decide - as long as state laws don't violate the constitution. A woman's right to protect her own life is a constitutional right. All states that have abortion laws have a provision that allows women to terminate their pregnancy in those life-threatening situations. Beyond that, there's nothing in the constitution that would give a woman the right to murder her own baby.
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If one truly believers abortion to be murder, then they are not content with murder happening in another state. Murder as we know is illegal in all 50 states. The "let the states decide" status quo is likely temporary and several politicians have spoken of a federal abortion ban.
Slade · 56-60, M
@SW-User So...
SW-User
@SW-User If a federal ban actually happens then I hope there will be mass protests and riots.
dale74 · M
@SW-User when the left and liberals riot people are killed the people who fight against abortion are doing everything to save mother and child.
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@SW-User Likely many states will simply not enforce it. That is what happened with the federal marijuana ban after all. States like Colorado and Washington decided they were not going to enforce the federal ban and legalized it.